[POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE] Lecture by Jocelyne Dakhlia- Harems in Black and White

Date: 

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Tunisia Office Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University, Les jardins du Lac II, Tunis

EVENT POSTPONED

 

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University prensents:

Harems in Black and White
Political Histories of Race and Color in the Maghrib
(14th-18th Centuries)

A Lecture by: 

Jocelyne Dakhlia

 

 

Professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

 

ABOUT JOCELYNE DAKHLIA:


Jocelyne Dakhlia is Professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS Paris. She studied history at the École Normale Supérieure in Fontenay-aux-Roses, then specialized in the anthropological history of the Maghrib. She earned a Ph.D in History from EHESS which she joined in 1990, later to become Director of Studies of its Center for Historical Research (CRH). Her work focuses on the political and cultural history of the Maghrib, Islam in the Mediterranean, and on cross-cultural exchanges, linguistic uses and women across the Mediterranean.

Jocelyne Dakhlia published numerous books and articles. Her works include: With Wolfgang Kaiser, Les musulmans dans l'histoire de l'Europe., Tome 2, Passages et contacts en Méditerranée Paris, (Albin Michel, 2013); with Bernard Vincent, Les musulmans dans l'histoire de l'Europe, Tome 1, Une intégration invisible (Paris, Albin Michel, 2011);  Tunisie. Le pays sans bruit, (Arles, Actes Sud, 2011); Lingua franca. Histoire d’une langue métisse en Méditerranée (Actes Sud, Arles, 2009);  L'empire des passions : l'arbitraire politique en Islam (Paris, Aubier, 2005); Islamicités, (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2005); Forgetting History (Stanford University Press, 2003); L'Oubli de la cité, Paris, La Découverte, 1990; (ed), Urbanités arabes. Hommage à Bernard Lepetit, (Actes Sud/Sindbad, 1998); Le Divan des Rois. Le politique et le religieux dans l'Islam, (Paris, Aubier, 1998)

Jocelyne Dakhlia is also a board member of the Revue des Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, she contributes editorially to Arabica and to the Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée. She is also a member of the Conseil scientifique de l'Institut d'Etudes de l'Islam where she has coordinated research on artistic creativity in Muslim countries. Dakhlia is also a member of the French Unesco Committee and a board member of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations.

Join us on March 18, 2020, from 6 to 8PM [THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED]
At the Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Admission Free